Findings on the beach.

While walking on the beaches on the island , its amazing what you can find while walking and keeping your head down . ..and having patience ! But you can come across some lovely bits of china or sea glass that have usually fallen from ships or boats.

We have mainly found china pieces along the beach by the side of Ryde or Sandown pier as well as sea glass. I love the bits that have writing on that would have started out as an earthen ware container.

My favourite to collect is blue china , which is usually well worn and and a bit faded in colour but amazing how the colours are still good considering the time some of it has been in the solent .

Then there are handles which of course at one time would have been joined to a cup , mug or jug .

My best find was down by Ryde Pier it is what they apparently call a pie crust dish obviously because of the base . We took it to Newport museum to be checked and was told by the expert there that it was 16th century which makes it round about Henry VIII s reign..So exciting . One of my most treasured pieces.

Sea Glass

Sea glass is naturally weathered glass which often looks like tumbled stones and is found along shores and beaches. It looks like frosted glass and is tumbled and tossed about in salt water until the edges are smooth and the glass loses its slick appearance .

Sea glass takes 20 – 40 years and sometimes over 100 years to get its appearance.

most common colours are colours of sea glass are brown , green white and clear and generally come from beverage bottles. Less common are types of green which comes from early to mid 1900s they come from ink , fruit and baking soda bottles . These are found in every 50 – 100 pieces.

Less common also is blue from early milk and magnesia bottles ,poison bottles and Vick vapour rub containers.These colours are found once for every 200 – 1000 pieces found.

All photos on this site are my originals taken by me on the beautiful island of the Isle of Wight.

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